The Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, has filed an originating summons against the State House of Assembly, its Speaker, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), and others, over an alleged plot to impeach him.
In the suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/221/2025 and filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, Ewhrudjakpo alleges that members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly are being pressured to impeach him because he “failed to resign, like the governor, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on whose platform they got to office.”
Bayelsa Governor Douye Diri recently resigned from the PDP, but Ewhrudjakpo did not follow suit.
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The suit, filed by his lawyer Reuben Egwuaba, also alleged that some Local Government Chairmen, including that of Sagbama Local Government Area, Mrs. Alice Tange, are also being “threatened with sack” for allegedly failing to abandon the PDP along with the governor.
The defendants listed in the suit are the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, its Speaker, the IGP, the Director General of the State Security Service (SSS), the Attorney General of Bayelsa State, the state’s Chief Judge, and the Clerk of the state’s Assembly.
On October 27, Justice Emeka Nwite heard an ex-parte motion from Egwuaba and ordered the defendants to appear before the court to “show cause why the interim reliefs being sought against them by the plaintiff should not be granted.”
The judge ruled that the “interest of justice will be met by issuing an order for all the defendants to appear and show cause why an order of interim injunction should not be granted against them.”
Justice Nwite adjourned the matter until November 13.
Among the interim reliefs Ewhrudjakpo is seeking in the motion on notice are orders to restrain the defendants from:
- Removing or impeaching him by “disregarding the provision of Section 188(5), (6), (7)(a), (b), (8), (9) and (11) and Section 36(1) of the Constitution” based on his decision not to defect from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC) or any other party before his tenure expires.
- “Initiating impeachment notice, impeachment proceedings/meetings of the Bayelsa state House of Assembly against him” on the same basis.
- Conducting any meeting for the purpose of initiating or igniting impeachment proceedings against him.
- Recognizing and dealing with the appointment of any member of the APC as the Deputy Governor of the state.
- Restraining the IGP, the DG of the SSS and the Bayelsa State AG from withdrawing his security protection as Deputy Governor of Bayelsa state.
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